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Web designers in the multimedia business have been slow to embrace open standards. Most websites feature content in the proprietary mp3, wmv, or Adobe Flash formats. In order to get many multimedia files to work with Ubuntu you need to enable the Medibuntu repositories. So fire up your handy, dandy terminal and enter the following to add Medibuntu to your sources list.

To play mpeg and other video formats, install libavcodec1d libavformat1d.

sudo apt-get install libavcodec1d libavformat1d

To install Adobe's Acrobat Reader:

sudo apt-get install acroread acroread-plugins

If you also want the Acrobat Reader plugin for Firefox:

sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread

In order to view videos on sites like YouTube and MetaCafe, you'll need to install the Adobe Flash Player. To do this, you first need to enable the Multiverse repository. To enable Multiverse through the menu, select System->Administration->Software Sources. Enter your password at the prompt. Then check the box to include the Multiverse Repository and click on Close.